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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of film
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Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of film.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Basics of Memento Mori -- From Art and Cultural History to Contemporary Documentary -- Features of Memento Mori and How Memento Mori Functions -- Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Documentaries -- Rhetorically-Oriented Phenomenology Applied to Documentaries -- Composed Transformative Experience: Introducing Documentaries as Memento Mori -- Program Ahead -- 1. Memento Mori in Art and Literature -- 1.1. Memento Mori in Art: As Symbol and as Picture -- 1.1.1. Memento Mori as Religious Image -- 1.1.2. Memento Mori as Still Life and as Portraiture -- 1.1.3. Memento Mori as Visual Quotation in Art, Including Photography -- 1.2. Memento Mori in Literature: As Verbal, Literary, and Ideational -- 1.2.1. Memento Mori as Picture Nomenclature and Verbal Instruction -- 1.2.2. Memento Mori as Reference in Literature: Verbatim and Ideational -- 1.3. Memento Mori in Film and Television -- 2. Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten as Memento Mori -- 2.1. Eameses as Designers of Experiences that Communicate Ideas -- 2.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Powers -- 2.2.1. Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational Memento Mori in Powers -- 2.2.2. Memento Mori as Mortality-Index in Powers -- 2.2.3. Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Powers -- 2.3. Intellectually Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Powers -- 3. Memento Mori as "Consciousness of Mortality" and as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 3.1. Memento Mori is an Index of Death -- 3.1.1. Memento Mori (in Any Form) Refers to Death -- 3.1.2. Memento Mori Relies upon Consciousness, Memory in Particular -- 3.2. Memento Mori is Also an Artificial Convention -- 3.2.1. Memento Mori is an Artifice with a History or Cultural Genealogy that Relies upon Particular Social Reception -- 3.2.2. Memento Mori Relates to Various and Specific Genres, Media, and Materials -- 3.3. Memento Mori as Composed Transformative Experience -- 3.3.1. General Aspects of Memento Mori Experience -- 3.3.2. Intellectually, Ethically, and Affectively Transformative Elements of Memento Mori Experience -- 3.4. Contemporary Form of Memento Mori: Documentaries -- 4. Ethical Memento Mori: Wim Wenders's Notebook on Cities and Clothes -- 4.1. Wenders as Contemplative Documentarian of Mortals -- 4.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Notebook -- 4.2.1. Memento Mori as Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational in Notebook -- 4.2.2. Memento Mori as Mortality-index in Notebook -- 4.2.3. Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Notebook -- 4.3. Ethically Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Notebook -- 5. Documentaries as Contemporary Memento Mori -- 5.1. Documentaries Index Death -- 5.2. Documentaries Also Rely on Convention with a Particular History and Function -- 5.3. Documentaries as Composed Transformative Experience -- 5.3.1. Documentaries as Intellectually Transformative: Determining and Distinguishing the Real from Irreal -- 5.3.2. Documentaries as Ethically Transformative: Contemplating Appropriate Responses to the Mortal Condition -- 5.3.3. Documentaries as Affectively Transformative: Moving Individuals into Distinctive Human Experience -- 5.4. Levels of Analysis by Which Memento Mori is Identified in Specific Documentaries -- 6. Quintessential Memento Mori Experience: Derek Jarman's Blue -- 6.1. Word on Jarman as Ecstatic Seer -- 6.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Blue -- 6.2.1. Memento Mori as Verbal, Literary, and Ideational in Blue -- 6.2.2. Memento Mori as Mortality-index and Convention in or Related to Blue -- 6.3. Affectively Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Blue -- 7. Personal Memento Mori: The Iconic 9/11 Footage and the Threat of Death -- 7.1. Viewer as Contemplative Seer of the Threat of Death -- 7.1.1. 12th of September, 2001, Comet Burger Diner, USA -- 7.1.2. When Memento Mori Strikes Close -- 7.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by the 9/11 Footage -- 7.2.1. Memento Mori as Symbolic, Ideational, and Composed in the 9/11 Footage -- 7.2.2. Memento Mori as Mediated Mortality-index, Indicated by the 9/11 Footage -- 7.3. Personally Transformative Points of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by the 9/11 Footage -- 7.3.1. Realizing One's Place as a Mortal in a Vast Cosmos -- 7.3.2. "Making one's life" as a Mortal in 21st Century "glocal" Society -- 7.3.3. Moving One's Self into Distinctive Human Experience -- 7.4. Counterpoint: Memento Mori as Death Threat in Extremist YouTube Videos -- 8. Conclusion and Future Prospects -- 8.1. After Death in Documentaries -- 8.2. From Memento Mori to Memento Vivere? -- 8.3. Memento Mori in New Media Environments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Death.
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Death. |
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films. |
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Death in motion pictures.
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Death in motion pictures. |
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Mortality in art.
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Mortality in art. |
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Mortality in literature.
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Mortality in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9789004356962 (electronic book) |
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9004356967 (electronic book) |
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9789004356955 |
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